My friend, Åāýéshah Siddīqah, with her never failing characteristic efficiency, had left the morning paper on my desk.

The pages were neatly folded back so that Fātimah Ålī’s photograph was smiling up at me from the printed page.

It was a good picture of Fātimah Ålī Sheikħ, bringing out the little characteristic twinkle in her extremely beautiful SaůūdīÅrabMusalmān eyes, the sparkle and vitality of her gorgeous Muslim personality.

I was very very proud of her intimate friendship with me.

Fātimah Ålī Sheikħ was as proud of my intimate friendship as I was of her, perhaps even more.

It was a great honor for me that she virtually fucked me when I tried to reason with her.

Entirely in nude she rested on me when she was satisfied somewhat.

“Sorry.” She was ashamed of herself somewhat, yet not ashamed to the extent that she should dismount me.

“For what?” I kissed her full on her beautiful quivering lips passionately. Both my palms were on her extremely beautiful gorgeous nude SaůūdīÅrabMusalmān buttocks,“I’ve enjoyed it very much and still enjoying.”

“Durgesh, you must understand I did not have any male companionship for a long time.”

“All right. Sit down, anyway. What do you want? But I’m sorry. You have to be brief. I have some important appointments this morning that I can’t afford to cancel. Moreover, there is some important mail here that I simply have to handle.”

Muħammad Ħussain moved over and sat on a chair at the side of my desk.

He did not offer to shake hands.

I didn’t try it too.

“Well, what is it?” I smiled cordially.

“It’s about a business investment.” Muħammad Ħussain said, “It seems that Muħammad Ålī needs money for financing this venture of his. It will only take one hundred thousand dollars and he should be able to pay back the money within a few”

I looked at him thinking somewhat,

“Gentleman, you told my friend, Åāýéshā Siddīqah that you wanted to see me about a personal matter.”

“Oh, it involves your friend Fātimah Ålī Sheikħ.”

“What?”

“Well, it’s like this. Muħammad Ålī is so desperate in his needs that he is approaching competent channels.”

“Fātimah Ålī Sheikħ had some jewelry that was insured. She made the mistake of pawning the jewelry before she reported that it had been stolen. She collected on the insurance policy. Then they found where the jewelry had been pawned. The police are very efficient in such matters.”

She could string Muħammad Ħussain along, ring up the police department, explain the matter to the officer in charge of such things, an officer who would promise to handle it discreetly and keep it very very confidential.

She knew how such things were handled.

They would arrange for her to turn over marked money.

Then they would arrest Muħammad Ħussain and the case would be kept very hush-hush.

“The business deal, my foot!” Kħadeejah Muħammad rebuked him, “You know what this is and I know what it is. Now let me get out of here, talk with Durgesh, and let’s think.”

“Oh, but I wanted to tell you about the business deal.” Muħammad Ħussain said, “Muħammad Ålī is certain Durgesh’ll have every penny of his money back. He can’t even dream to make Durgesh his enemy. It’s just a question of raising the operating capital, Ms. Muħammad, and”

“I know, I know.” Kħadeejah Muħammad laughed, “Even if you were really born yesterday, I was certainly not. Give me time to show it to Durgesh and think this over.”

Saiyadā Fātimah PhD looked at Fātimah Ålī Sheikħ with a quite mischievious glint in her extremely beautiful eyes, “Durgesh is very naughty tonight. I’m sure I can’t handle him on bed when he is so impish. You think you can handle him?”

“Sorry, Bājī! You are living in fool’s paradise. Why don’t you accept the truth? Sex is natural. We need it more than Durgesh even. Durgesh is an exception. Hindus are the sexiest males in the Multiverse, but Durgesh is the most sexiest male even among Hindus. We should be proud of it. Why should we be ashamed of it?”

“The technique used by detectives is to take a piece of transparent cellophane tape and place it over the latent fingerprints. Then when we remove the Scotch tape, the dust adheres to the tape. We can put the print on a card and study it at our leisure without damaging the latent print.”

Åāýéshah Siddīqah’s long, skillful fingers deftly snipped pieces of the transparent tape, laid them over the back of the silver tray, smoothed them into position, and then removed the tape so that we could study the fingerprints, line for line, and whorl for whorl.

“I’m darned if I know.” Åāýéshah Siddīqah responded cheerfully in addition, “I just want something useful to do. I’ve always been fascinated with problems of detection. I think it may sharpen my powers of observation.”

“This is a problem bigger for me. I can’t suggest, as an amateur, how to solve it. It involves the security of one of your loyal SaůūdīÅrabMusalmān women. However, if we once start paying, there’s no end to it.”

“We might,”Kħadeejah Muħammad said, “play along with Muħammad Ħussain for a while. We can stall him for time as much as possible. In the meantime, we can try to find out who the damn Muħammad Ålī is. After all, they must have their own weaknesses. Must they not?”

“Well, he was clever. There were two of them just as they are here. He killed one of the blackmailers and made the evidence indicate the other blackmailer committed the murder. The frantic blackmailer tried to tell the true story to the jury, but the jury just laughed at him and sent him to the electric chair.”